Oribe Ware Confectionery Bowl — Boat-Form with Copper Green Glaze and Iron Grass Brushwork, Tomobako

A confectionery dish (kashiki) in the Oribe tradition, formed in a long boat shape with pointed ends — a silhouette that declares its own logic without apology.

🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ]
• Artist: —
• Origin: Mino, Gifu, Japan
• Material: Oribe ware with copper green glaze and iron underglaze brushwork on white slip ground
• Motif: Grass Motif (Kusa-e) in Oribe Style
• Era: 1900s
• Box: Tomobako (artist's wooden presentation box)
• Condition: Good, carefully inspected

🔹 [ Cultural & Artistic Insight ]
One corner floods with copper green glaze, dense and pooling where the clay curves deepest. Against it, the cream-white ground carries iron brushwork: loose, unhurried grass strokes that neither complete nor explain themselves. The rim is edged in iron black, a quiet boundary between the vessel and the world.

This is the Oribe sensibility — not balance, but intention. Color placed where it decides to land. Form that refuses symmetry. The hand visible in every decision.

The piece comes in its original wooden storage box (tomobako), with brushed inscription reading Oribe Kashiki — a record of the object's identity carried across time.

🔹 [ Deep-Dive Commentary ]
Condition: Good antique condition. Natural crazing throughout the glaze surface. No chips or cracks. Minor age-related wear consistent with use in a tea setting.

Dimensions: Approximately 20.5 cm wide.

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🔹 [ 日本語解説 ]
舟形の浅鉢。片隅に銅緑釉が大胆に流れ込み、白地に鉄絵の草文が筆勢よく描かれた織部らしい意匠。口縁に鉄錆の縁取り。共箱付き（「織部 菓子鉢」の墨書）。状態良好、貫入あり欠け割れなし。幅約20.5cm。

🔹 [ SHIPPING & PACKAGING ]
• Dispatch: Within 1-6 business days
• Carrier: Japan Post EMS / UPS (with tracking)
• Packaging: Carefully wrapped with protective materials